Stefan Kreft
Research interests
Research projects
Consultancies
Teaching
Academic education
Membership in professional bodies
Publications
Links
Contact: stefan.kreft@hnee.de
Research interests
My priorities as a researcher and consultant have gradually extended from field ecological studies for (bird) species conservation to ecosystem-based, participatory, adaptive conservation management planning. It was the impression of rapid land-use changes in South America that first triggered my ever-growing conviction that conservation biology risks to be largely meaningless if scientists do not try to maximise involvement in policy-making of nature conservation in its widest sense. Thus, I strive for research outcomes as policy-relevant as possible. In many activities, I have addressed protected area management, and adaptation to climate change in particular, because I think climate change is an increasingly pervasive driver of changes in biodiversity, also through the changes of land-use it is embedded in. While in the last years I have been focusing on Europe, developing and transitional countries remain of great interest to me.
I have been part of the Roadless Areas Initiative of the Society for Conservation Biology - Europe Section since 2009. I am currently member of the Board of Directors of SCB-ES and Chair of its Policy Committee.
Research projects
| Since 2019 | Germany |
Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management (CEEM) / |
Development and testing of a participatory-adaptive methodology (based on the MARISCO method) for an ecosystem-based riskk management of ground water and surface water bodies |
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) |
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2014-2015
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Germany
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Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)
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2009-today
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Germany
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German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) – KLIMZUG programme
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2006-2009
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Germany
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Germany's protected areas under climate change – risks and policy options |
Consultancies
| 2019 | Germany |
CEEM / HNEE |
Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change and regional sustainable development by empowerment of Ukrainian biosphere reserves | International Climate Initiative | |
| 2018 | Germany |
CEEM / HNEE |
Situation analysis of users of the Floating University Berlin and approaches to achievement of visions and goals | raumlaborberlin | |
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2016 2017 |
Germany | NABU & Foresters' Association of Turkey | Practicability of the EU Natura 2000 concept in the forested areas of Turkey | EU Civil Society Dialogue Grant Program IV | |
| 2015 | Germany | CEEM | Capacity building and networking actions in the Baekdu Daegan Biosphere Reserves | FAO | |
| 2014 | Colombia | Environmental policy and sustainable management of natural resources |
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| 2013 | Colombia | „Trinational Initiative“; Improvement of the national protected area systems in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia | BMU – IKI programme | ||
| 2013 | Ethiopia |
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Participation of land-users in adaptive protected area management planning (focusing on ecosystem services) at Lake Tana, Ethiopia | BMU – IKI programme | |
| 2012-2013 | Germany | GIZ | Vulnerability and risk management in protected areas: elaboration of a methodological handbook (MARISCO) | ||
| 2011 | China | GIZ | Sino-German climate partnership | BMU – IKI programme | |
| 2009-2010 | China | GTZ (today GIZ) | Protected area management and climate change in Jiangxi Province, China (Vulnerability assessment, adaptation options) | BMU – IKI programme | |
| 2003-2005 | Bolivia | F.A.N. Bolivia | A nature conservation vision for the Biocorridor Amboró-Madidi | Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy & WWF | |
| 2000 | Bolivia | F.A.N. Bolivia | Biocorridor Amboró-Madidi – towards a nature conservation plan | WWF | |
| 1999 | Germany | Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) | Preparation of a workshop on ”Nature-sound forest development”, Island of Vilm, Germany | BMU |
Teaching
| Since 2005 | Germany | HNEE |
Lecturing of study modules in the programmes - Global Change Management (M.Sc.) - International Forest Ecosystem Management (B.Sc.) - Forestry (B.Sc.) |
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| Since 2007 | Germany | HNEE | Supervision and evaluation of 31 Master, Diplom and Bachelor theses |
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- Over 100 publications (German, English, Spanish) on nature conservation, tropical ecology and ornithology, also as an editor
- Over 90 public talks
Academic education
- Biology, Diploma (equivalent to M.Sc.): University of Hamburg (1993-1998), University of Tübingen (1990-1993)
- Diploma thesis on bird assemblages in different successional stages of a cloud forest in southwestern Colombia
- Dr. rer. nat., dissertation on altitudinal movements of birds in the Andes, with a field study in Carrasco National Park (Bolivia)
Membership of professional bodies
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Society for Conservation Biology - Europe Section - member of the Board of Directors, Chair of the Policy Committee
- Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft (DO-G) (German Ornithologists’ Society)
- gtö - Society for Tropical Ecology (Society for Tropical Ecology)
Links
- Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management
- Society for Conservation Biology - Europe Section
- Society for Conservation Biology – Europe Section: Policy Committee
- Society for Conservation Biology – Roadless Areas Initiative
- Society for Conservation Biology – International Congress of Conservation Biology 2015
- Innovationsnetzwerk Klimaanpassung Brandenburg Berlin - INKA BB
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